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The Golden Deer

Rurumigarājajātaka

“I bring you tidings”—This story the Master told while dwelling in the Bamboo-grove, about Devadatta. One might say to him, “The Master is most useful to you, friend Devadatta. You received holy orders from the Tathagata, from him you learnt the Three Baskets, you obtained gifts and honour.” When such things were said, it is credibly reported he would reply, “No, friend; the Master has done me no good, not so much as a blade of grass is worth. Of myself I received holy orders, myself I learned the Three Baskets, by myself I gained gifts and honour.” In the Hall of Truth the Brethren talked of all this: “Ungrateful is Devadatta, my friend, and forgets a kindness done.” The Master came in, and would know what they talked of sitting there. They told him. Said he, “It is not now the first time, Brethren, that Devadatta is ungrateful, but ungrateful he was before; and in days long gone by his life was saved by me, yet he knew not the greatness of my merit.” So saying, he told a story of the past.

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0.49. Rurumigarājajātaka

1.1PTS 4.257“Tassa gāmavaraṁ dammi,1.2Nāriyo ca alaṅkatā;1.3Yo metaṁ migamakkhāti,1.4Migānaṁ migamuttamaṁ”.

2.1“Mayhaṁ gāmavaraṁ dehi,2.2nāriyo ca alaṅkatā;2.3Ahaṁ te migamakkhissaṁ,2.4migānaṁ migamuttamaṁ.

3.1PTS 4.258Etasmiṁ vanasaṇḍasmiṁ,3.2ambā sālā ca pupphitā;3.3Indagopakasañchannā,3.4ettheso tiṭṭhate migo”.

4.1“Dhanuṁ advejjhaṁ katvāna,4.2usuṁ sannayhupāgami;4.3Migo ca disvā rājānaṁ,4.4dūrato ajjhabhāsatha.

5.1Āgamehi mahārāja,5.2mā maṁ vijjhi rathesabha;5.3Ko nu te idamakkhāsi,5.4ettheso tiṭṭhate migo”.

6.1PTS 4.259“Esa pāpacaro poso,6.2samma tiṭṭhati ārakā;6.3Soyaṁ me idamakkhāsi,6.4ettheso tiṭṭhate migo”.

7.1“Saccaṁ kireva māhaṁsu,7.2narā ekacciyā idha;7.3Kaṭṭhaṁ niplavitaṁ seyyo,7.4na tvevekacciyo naro”.

8.1PTS 4.260“Kiṁ nu ruru garahasi migānaṁ,8.2Kiṁ pakkhīnaṁ kiṁ pana mānusānaṁ;8.3Bhayañhi maṁ vindatinapparūpaṁ,8.4Sutvāna taṁ mānusiṁ bhāsamānaṁ”.

9.1“Yamuddhariṁ vāhane vuyhamānaṁ,9.2Mahodake salile sīghasote;9.3Tatonidānaṁ bhayamāgataṁ mama,9.4Dukkho have rāja asabbhi saṅgamo”.

10.1“Sohaṁ catuppattamimaṁ vihaṅgamaṁ,10.2Tanucchidaṁ hadaye ossajāmi;10.3Hanāmi taṁ mittadubbhiṁ akiccakāriṁ,10.4Yo tādisaṁ kammakataṁ na jāne”.

11.1PTS 4.261“Dhīrassa bālassa have janinda,11.2Santo vadhaṁ nappasaṁsanti jātu;11.3Kāmaṁ gharaṁ gacchatu pāpadhammo,11.4Yañcassa bhaṭṭhaṁ tadetassa dehi;11.5Ahañca te kāmakaro bhavāmi”.

12.1“Addhā rurū aññataro sataṁ so,12.2Yo dubbhato mānusassa na dubbhi;12.3Kāmaṁ gharaṁ gacchatu pāpadhammo,12.4Yañcassa bhaṭṭhaṁ tadetassa dammi;12.5Ahañca te kāmacāraṁ dadāmi”.

13.1“Suvijānaṁ siṅgālānaṁ,13.2sakuṇānañca vassitaṁ;13.3Manussavassitaṁ rāja,13.4dubbijānataraṁ tato.

14.1Api ce maññatī poso,14.2ñāti mitto sakhāti vā;14.3Yo pubbe sumano hutvā,14.4pacchā sampajjate diso”.

15.1PTS 4.262“Samāgatā jānapadā,15.2negamā ca samāgatā;15.3Migā sassāni khādanti,15.4taṁ devo paṭisedhatu”.

16.1“Kāmaṁ janapado māsi,16.2raṭṭhañcāpi vinassatu;16.3Na tvevāhaṁ ruruṁ dubbhe,16.4datvā abhayadakkhiṇaṁ.

17.1Mā me janapado āsi,17.2raṭṭhañcāpi vinassatu;17.3Na tvevāhaṁ migarājassa,17.4varaṁ datvā musā bhaṇe”ti.

18.1Rurumigarājajātakaṁ navamaṁ.